Rep. Steven Palazzo (R) has won the past six elections in Mississippi’s Fourth Congressional District, but recent campaign finance allegations may shake up his re-election bid, with four Republicans vying to oust him in the 2022 primary.
In March last year, the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) made public a report that suggested Palazzo “may have violated House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law.”
The OCE found evidence that Palazzo used campaign funds to maintain and improve a property he owned, may have spent campaign funds on personal expenses, may have asked official staffers to perform campaign and personal work during their workdays, may have spent Congressional allowances on campaign or personal expenses, and may have used his position to ask for special treatment from the Navy for his brother, according to the report….